TV Related Stuff

Anybody who knows us well knows we watch a LOT of TV - I've always been a media fan and between the Media Centre, the DVR and so forth it's easy to be a fan.

Anyway, things we're watching at the moment - some have ended, some have not...

True Blood: Almost at the last episode - great stuff, loved every minute of it.  Real vampires - none of this teenage angst nonsense.  Yes Twilight I am looking at you!  Jessica is how a teenage vampire is meant to look and behave.

Psych: A Guilty Pleasure - everything just clicks in this show.  The ensemble cast works better than pretty much anything since the days of Buffy.  I must admit that it's pretty brainless fluff - and the cast do have an air about them that somebody is going to catch onto the gag one day and cancel the show.  But the ride is fun none the less.  Oh and I like the theme.

Eureka: Another in my Guilty Pleasure box - I must admit that I try not to listen to the Technobabble because it makes the baby jesus... er... me cry. 

Burn Notice: Getting a tad repetitive in the current season but Bruce Campbell is still awesome (in relation to Psych, wouldn't Shawn make a good long lost son for Sam?)

Warehouse 13: A single gag show but well done even so.

Haven:  I'm not convinced I like this one.  I might give it another week or two, but the last episode is on the DVR and I've not rushed to watch it

Leverage: That is on the DVR and I am itching to watch it.  I've always loved a good con and everything about this show really works for me

The Gates:  This one I didn't think I'd like.  I mean, a gated community for Vampires and Werewolves. Yawn.  Except it's working, they've hooked me and pulled together some interesting takes on an old theme.

Actually that's about it really.  There's some new stuff coming, but less new genre things than in previous years, which is a little weird.

Anyway, I really must do some work.

Et Tu Friedman?

Ok, so I will admit that I've had more than my fair share of run-ins with David Friedman over the years and come to the conclusion that he's about as in touch with the reality that most people live in as...  actually, that's a really hard one to complete because he's up there with Marie Antoinette when it comes to "let them eat cake" type proclamations.

Some years ago when we were discussing how he felt that businesses must be allowed to fail for the greater good I asked if he'd had to work with and deal with skilled engineering workers who'd seen their lives vanish in the space of a few years in the 80s?  He said he hadn't but that he had argued with academics for policies which could endanger their jobs. Er...  well, glad that's sorted.

Anyway, he's considering the question of President Obama's religion on his blog at the moment.   Funny thing, even with the high degree of contempt I have for his Libertarian position I actually found this to be even further beneath him.

The thing is.  Why in the blue blazes is this even an issue?  Except for Obama being a different colour to the more conventional US president, one of the things I find most unpalatable about him is his evangelical Christianity, which comes across in a bunch of his actions and statements. And don't get me started on the people who don't believe he is a theist of any stripe because, and I quote, "having faith would require that he believed in something bigger than himself."

Seriously?

SERIOUSLY?

Shame on them all.